If (or when) you see Rick Perry’s bus pass by on its trailblazing two-week, 44-stop tour across Iowa, you’ll know at glance what the campaign is hoping to emphasize:

“Faith, Jobs and FREEDOM,” reads the bus, on a red and white and blue backdrop.

Sitting at just below double digits in most polls and with only 20 days left until the caucuses, Perry’s making an agressive grab for the nearly two-thirds of Iowa caucusgoers who remain undecided by stressing Christian values, his jobs record in Texas and what he says makes America exceptional.

While on duty in Afghanistan, Moran was injured by an improvised bomb that left third degree burns on 50 percent of his body.

“I’ll be here, even though you know I can’t regulate my body temperature that much anymore, I got to go and knock on every door in the entire union to tell my fellow Americans how important it is that we elect Rick Perry to the presidency of the United States,” he said.

After a wash of applause for the veteran’s remarks, Perry stepped back to the podium: “That, ladies in gentleman, is an example of why I get up everyday.”